Forensic Linguistics
Expert Analysis, Reporting and Testimony
Natalie Schilling Consulting provides expert witness analysis, reporting, and testimony in cases involving language evidence. Natalie has 20 years’ experience in forensic linguistics and has worked with attorneys and law enforcement professionals on criminal and civil cases involving matters such as:
- Authorship attribution, verification, and profiling
- Speaker profiling and identification
- Disputed utterance analysis
- Trademark and copyright dispute
- Plagiarism and academic dishonesty
To conduct her analyses, Natalie applies her linguistic scientific expertise in the following areas:
- Dialectology (language variation by geography, ethnicity, gender, education level, etc.)
- Discourse analysis (conversations, narratives)
- Stylistic variation (language variation within individuals)
- Phonetics, phonology, acoustic phonetics (language sounds)
- Lexicon (vocabulary)
- Morphology (the structure and meaning of words)
- Syntax (sentence structure)
- Semantics (language meaning)
- Pragmatics (language meaning in context)
Presentations, Workshops, and Training Sessions
Natalie taught Forensic Linguistics for more than 15 years at Georgetown University and has designed and delivered presentations, workshops and training sessions in forensic linguistics and sociolinguistics for law enforcement, security, and intelligence professionals, including the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Topics include:
Forensic Linguistics: Overview and Case Studies
Forensic Linguistics for Law Enforcement Professionals
Sociolinguistics for Law Enforcement Professionals
Linguistics Indicators of Deception and Veracity
Language, Gender and Sexuality